Biosafety experts comment on reported CDC lab problems
(CIDRAP News) – News reports about possible airflow problems at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab in Atlanta are fueling perceptions that the agency isn't following its own rules, but the reported conditions at the lab don't appear to have posed a public health threat, according to some expert observers. An investigative series by USA Today over the past few weeks has cast a spotlight on concerns that CDC employees raised internally about an incident in February in which air from a lab blew into a corridor where visitors weren't wearing respiratory protection and about engineering changes in the building that apparently reversed airflow.
